Lab49 is an awardwinning specialist consultancy that creates bespoke technology in partnership with the worlds leading financial institutions. Founded in 2002 to bring Silicon Valley engineering practices to Wall Street weve delivered hundreds of highimpact projects across global investment banks and buyside firms spanning distributed systems highperformance automation enterprise UX cloud and datadriven platforms.
At Lab49 engineers work directly with clients to design and deliver production systems. We combine technology design and business to solve real problems where quality performance and clarity matter.
The Role
As a Tech Lead you are a true project leader. You own the technical direction and delivery of client engagements while multiplying the effectiveness of the engineers around you.
This is a handson leadership role: you will design systems write code when it matters most guide architectural decisions and ensure the team delivers highquality outcomes even when you are not at the keyboard.
You will work closely with client stakeholders designers product partners and Lab49 leadership to ensure solutions are technically sound aligned to business objectives and delivered with excellence.
What Youll Be Doing
Technical Leadership & Delivery
Lead the design and delivery of modern productiongrade web applications using contemporary UI technologies and frameworks.
Architect solutions that balance user experience performance scalability and delivery constraints.
Set technical direction and standards ensuring consistency quality and longterm maintainability across the system.
Actively manage software quality testing strategy and delivery velocity even when youre not directly writing code.
Team Leadership & Leverage
Lead and mentor engineers across one or more workstreams helping them grow technically and professionally.
Delegate effectively manage priorities and create clarity so the team can execute with confidence.
Foster a culture of ownership accountability and continuous improvement.
Serve as a role model for how to think communicate and act as a senior consultant and engineer.
Client & Stakeholder Partnership
Partner directly with client stakeholders as a trusted technical advisor.
Translate business and user objectives into clear technical strategies and delivery plans.
Communicate tradeoffs and recommendations clearly to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
Build strong durable client relationships that support successful delivery and future work.
Practice Contribution
Contribute to the growth and maturity of Lab49s Interactive Practice by sharing expertise shaping standards and mentoring future leaders.
Support business development efforts by contributing to pitches solution design and technical storytelling where appropriate.
What Success Looks Like
In your first 612 months success means:
Your teams consistently deliver highquality software that meets user and client objectives.
Engineers around you are growing more autonomous and more effective because of your leadership.
Clients trust your judgment and rely on you for technical direction and clarity.
You demonstrate strong ownership of outcomes not just tasks and proactively address risks before they become issues.
You can step back from the keyboard when needed without delivery or quality suffering.
Support innovation initiatives involving modern engineering tools AI/LLMbased solutions automation or engineering accelerators.
What You Should Have
10 years of experience designing and building complex commercialgrade software systems.
Proven track record of leading and driving the UI development stream for large-scale multi-year greenfield projects from conception to deployment.
Deep expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript with one or more modern UI frameworks (React Angular Vue etc.).
Strong understanding of endtoend web application architecture APIs data flow and performance considerations.
Experience with AI/LLM tooling automation frameworks or engineering agents
Solid grasp of SDLC practices CI/CD automated testing strategies and quality management.
Strong professional experience within banking payments or financial services
Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Bonus Points
Experience working on large-scale multi-year programmes within complex enterprise environments such as Fortune 500 firms
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.
Experience working with financial products platforms or dataintensive systems.
Demonstrated involvement in community building mentoring or internal practice leadership.
Why Lab49
At Lab49 youll work on complex meaningful problems with talented engineers designers and consultants. Youll gain broad exposure to technologies business domains and client environments as you grow your career.
We value curiosity judgment and ownership. If you care about quality enjoy helping others succeed and want your work to have real impact Lab49 is a place where you can thrive.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
Lab49 is an awardwinning specialist consultancy that creates bespoke technology in partnership with the worlds leading financial institutions. Founded in 2002 to bring Silicon Valley engineering practices to Wall Street weve delivered hundreds of highimpact projects across global investment banks an...
Lab49 is an awardwinning specialist consultancy that creates bespoke technology in partnership with the worlds leading financial institutions. Founded in 2002 to bring Silicon Valley engineering practices to Wall Street weve delivered hundreds of highimpact projects across global investment banks and buyside firms spanning distributed systems highperformance automation enterprise UX cloud and datadriven platforms.
At Lab49 engineers work directly with clients to design and deliver production systems. We combine technology design and business to solve real problems where quality performance and clarity matter.
The Role
As a Tech Lead you are a true project leader. You own the technical direction and delivery of client engagements while multiplying the effectiveness of the engineers around you.
This is a handson leadership role: you will design systems write code when it matters most guide architectural decisions and ensure the team delivers highquality outcomes even when you are not at the keyboard.
You will work closely with client stakeholders designers product partners and Lab49 leadership to ensure solutions are technically sound aligned to business objectives and delivered with excellence.
What Youll Be Doing
Technical Leadership & Delivery
Lead the design and delivery of modern productiongrade web applications using contemporary UI technologies and frameworks.
Architect solutions that balance user experience performance scalability and delivery constraints.
Set technical direction and standards ensuring consistency quality and longterm maintainability across the system.
Actively manage software quality testing strategy and delivery velocity even when youre not directly writing code.
Team Leadership & Leverage
Lead and mentor engineers across one or more workstreams helping them grow technically and professionally.
Delegate effectively manage priorities and create clarity so the team can execute with confidence.
Foster a culture of ownership accountability and continuous improvement.
Serve as a role model for how to think communicate and act as a senior consultant and engineer.
Client & Stakeholder Partnership
Partner directly with client stakeholders as a trusted technical advisor.
Translate business and user objectives into clear technical strategies and delivery plans.
Communicate tradeoffs and recommendations clearly to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
Build strong durable client relationships that support successful delivery and future work.
Practice Contribution
Contribute to the growth and maturity of Lab49s Interactive Practice by sharing expertise shaping standards and mentoring future leaders.
Support business development efforts by contributing to pitches solution design and technical storytelling where appropriate.
What Success Looks Like
In your first 612 months success means:
Your teams consistently deliver highquality software that meets user and client objectives.
Engineers around you are growing more autonomous and more effective because of your leadership.
Clients trust your judgment and rely on you for technical direction and clarity.
You demonstrate strong ownership of outcomes not just tasks and proactively address risks before they become issues.
You can step back from the keyboard when needed without delivery or quality suffering.
Support innovation initiatives involving modern engineering tools AI/LLMbased solutions automation or engineering accelerators.
What You Should Have
10 years of experience designing and building complex commercialgrade software systems.
Proven track record of leading and driving the UI development stream for large-scale multi-year greenfield projects from conception to deployment.
Deep expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript with one or more modern UI frameworks (React Angular Vue etc.).
Strong understanding of endtoend web application architecture APIs data flow and performance considerations.
Experience with AI/LLM tooling automation frameworks or engineering agents
Solid grasp of SDLC practices CI/CD automated testing strategies and quality management.
Strong professional experience within banking payments or financial services
Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Bonus Points
Experience working on large-scale multi-year programmes within complex enterprise environments such as Fortune 500 firms
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.
Experience working with financial products platforms or dataintensive systems.
Demonstrated involvement in community building mentoring or internal practice leadership.
Why Lab49
At Lab49 youll work on complex meaningful problems with talented engineers designers and consultants. Youll gain broad exposure to technologies business domains and client environments as you grow your career.
We value curiosity judgment and ownership. If you care about quality enjoy helping others succeed and want your work to have real impact Lab49 is a place where you can thrive.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
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